Losing patience with Bush (Joe Scarborough)

[Coexist]

Joe Scarborough's latest column is a peek into the crumbling foundation of what I have come to call Supreme Republican Confidence.

Rove may be a genius at twisting public perception temporarily. But if you don't back up the rhetoric with competent leadership once in office, the tides of time will eventually expose you. Being a rigid ideologue in the face failure is an arrogant thing to do. Arrogance is ugly. All the folksy town meetings in the world won't erase the glimpse of the True George Bush Administration that America has seen.

Here is an excerpt of that blog - it is sad, in a way, I know what it feels like to have my heart broken by someone I looked to for leadership:

Even as an 11 year old, I knew the gig was up when my dad opened up the paper one morning in August and whispered, "If he's done half of this stuff, he should be sent straight to jail."

The next day, Nixon resigned.

Thirty-two years later, the same guy who stood by Nixon to the very end turned away from the Duke-Boston College game to tell me that he was losing patience with another GOP leader.

"What's going on with Bush? I look at some of the things he's been doing and I just don't..."

Dad's voice trailed off.

This lifelong Republican who waited in line for hours in 1964 to cast his vote for Goldwater, and predicted the rise of Ronald Reagan in 1979, could not bring himself to verbalize what the President's critics have been saying for years now. That George Bush's war is a disaster and his administration is out of touch with the Silent Majority.

[Bucky]

1. They're so close to waking up. So close...

sigh

Still won't happen, of course.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. Very interesting!

[Ecumenist]

3. Good!!!

It's about damn time that he admits what over 60 percent of us have known for the better part of 5 years.:banghead:

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Losing Patience?

How many do-overs are we supposed to give this guy?

[reality based]

5. Joe needs to read this Jane Smiley post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

[neoblues]

6. Saw Shrub growling about people "telling him what to do"...

on TV the other day. He says this is common, after all, Washington is full of people who want to give him advice... and that he'd just listen and do whatever he wants--and by his body language, it was an effort for him to say/pretend that he indeed would, at least "listen". We all know (a) he wouldn't deign to actually "listen" to any reasonable advice, (b) he'd never actually change his mind/approach/choice based on advice from others and (c) he's really quite offended by anyone who actually dares give him advice (just who the hell do they think they are? offering advice to God's appointed messenger and supreme Earthly commander?).

Apparently, some are more "diplomatic" (obeisant, obsequious) than others in their delivery, while others are positively insolent (you know, they politely express their opinions--but their opinions, being unwanted are considered worthless before they've even been said and therefore are perceived as an affront to the dignity of The Shrub--which naturally means the speaker must be "telling" the President "what to do"--and again--"How Dare They Speak to Their Betters** That Way!" :puke: ). {if I sound like I hold the "Occupant of the Presidency" in low esteem--well, guilty as charged...}

** "Betters"? :sarcasm: Yeah, sure... no doubt narcissistic george thinks so.

[flordehinojos]

7. "This son of mine will not disappoint you", said Ole Pappy Poppy to a

televised audience at a fundraiser in the run-up to the election 2000 from hell. Poppy knew waaaayyy back then ... he just covered the fester with a patch before it festered!